March 29, 2024

Roman Catholic Church sets date for conclave

The Roman Catholic Church has finally set a conclave date. Father Frederico Lombardi at the Vatican announced that the College of Cardinals will begin the electoral process Tuesday, March 12th. The Cardinals will vote four times daily, twice in the morning,twice in the afternoon. The longest conclave in the 20th century went four and a half … [Read more...]

Jackson Sets “Tintin” Sequel For 2015

During a recent interview with Belgian media, director Peter Jackson confirmed that he's not waiting until the end of production on "The Hobbit" sequels to get to work on the next "The Adventures of Tintin" movie. With the Steven Spielberg-directed first film, the actual performance capture shoot was quite short - about one month. The … [Read more...]

“End of Watch” Re-Released, IFC Sets Dates

Surprising many with both very strong reviews and solid box-office, David Ayer's R-rated cop drama "End of Watch" is headed back to the big screen on December 7th. Open Road Films is planning to take advantage of the fairly dead post-Thanksgiving time to give its Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña-led film another shot at awards consideration. On … [Read more...]

Warners Sets “Justice League” For 2015

With their court win over the rights to Superman behind them, Warner Bros. Pictures is wasting no time and is already said to be accelerating development of its planned "Justice League" movie. The L.A. Times reports that Warner hopes to shoot the film next year and have it ready for release Summer 2015. The script is already well underway, the … [Read more...]

Focus Sets “Promised Land” For Oscar Run

Focus Features is set to give Gus Van Sant's "Promised Land" an awards-qualifying two city theatrical run on Friday, December 28th says Deadline. Matt Damon and John Krasinski co-wrote the script and star in the project about a corporate salesman (Damon) who arrives in a rural town with his sales partner (Frances McDormand) to try and purchase … [Read more...]

Mother sets up petition for meningitis vaccination

The mother of a 19-year old UVIC student who died of meningitis last year - is launching a petition, calling on the Province to cover a particular vaccine - she argues could have saved her son.Mabel Chan's son Leo thought he had come down with the flu.It wasn't - it was bacterial meningitis.24 hours later, he was in a coma.He died just days … [Read more...]

Fox Sets Apes 2, ID4 3D, X-Men 2 Dates

Disney isn't the only one playing musical chairs with their slate this week as Fox have made some big announcements which essentially set up their Summer 2014 slate according to Box-Office Mojo. It's a line-up that will resemble last year's in fact, kicking off with the newly titled "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes". The sequel to 'Rise', which … [Read more...]

Mel Gibson’s “Gringo” Sets Date, New Trailer

Adrian Grunberg's "Get the Gringo" starring Mel Gibson will not be going theatrical in the United States reports Reuters. Instead DirecTV, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Icon Productions are teaming to release the R-rated film on Blu-ray, DVD, VOD and digital download platforms. DirecTV will aggresively promote a $ 10.99 HD on-demand … [Read more...]

Aronofsky’s “Noah” Sets Sail In July?

Cinematographer Matthew Libatique recently spoke with Hollywood Elsewhere columnist Jeffrey Wells about Darren Aronofsky's ambitious epic "Noah" at Fox and New Regency. Talking about that discussion on the latest Oscar Poker via (The Playlist, Wells says "he was telling me about 'Noah' and what the script is like. They're going to start shooting … [Read more...]

CES 2012 sets all-time records for attendance, exhibitors and claimed floor space

CES 2013 has already been scheduled (it's January 8 - 11, for those curious), and it'll have new records to break once things get going again. A source close to the CEA informed us today that CES 2012 has broken a trifecta of records already, and the final tallies aren't even in yet. For starters, more people attended CES this year than ever … [Read more...]